Water-motor.



No. 731,835. l P ATENTED JUNE 28, 1903. C. A. ARNSBERGER.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLIUATION FILED rm. 24, 1902.

PATENTBD JUNE 2s, 1903.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2..

. C. Al ARNSBERGER.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLIUATION FILED FEB. 24, 1902.

No MODEL.

PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

3 SHEETS--SHEET 3.

noMoDEL.

. Hd'igzss 1 t l if 4s the wheel is fianged, as at G, between which UNITED l STATES Patented June 23, 1903.

` PATENT OEEICE.

`OYRUS A. ARNSBERGER, OF RDY, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF ONETENTI-I TO V ROBERT A. CRAIG, OF RUDY, IDAHO.

l citizen of the United States,residing at Rudy,=

WATER-.Moro R.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent N0. 731,835, dated .Tune 23, 1903. y

Application filed February 24, 1902. Serial No. 95.406. (No model.)

To ttZZ whom t mag/couccrrt.-

y Be it known thatLCYRUs A.AENsBnRGEE,a

in the county of Fremont and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful VVater-Mo` tor, of which the following is a specification.

y The invention relates to a water-motor.

Theobject of the present invention is to improve the construction of water-motors and to provide anapparatus of this character which will be comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction and which will be adapted to obtain `its power from a body of water, such as a stream or the like. Y

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the `claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents an t elevation of a water-motor constructed in accordance with this invention.. f sents a plan view thereof.

`a `vertical sectional view of Fig. 2 repre-` Fig. 3 represents A the power-wheel. Fig. 4 represents a vertical section taken on p line 4 4 of Fig. 2. 1

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the tigu res of the drawings.

`l designates a rotary power-wheel having a hollow hub 5, fixed at `one end to a stub- `shaft 2, journaled in suitable bearings of a supporting-frame 3, and rotatably mounted at its other end on a pipe 4, which forms a conduit for conducting water from an elevated source of supply to the interior of the powerwheel. This tube or pipe 4, which may be connected at its upper end with any suitable .40` y the water iiowing through the pipe will rise `to the top of the arms of the wheel, is bent at elevated source of supply and which extends atleast to the top of the power-wheel, so that itslower end to form a trunnion for one end of the wheel-hub 5, a stuii'ing-box 24 of the usual construction being provided. The hub 5 of are disposed a plurality of arms 8. These `arrive at't-he bottom of the wheel.

arms are connected by short stems 'Ja with valves l0, arranged within the hollow hub 5 4and adapted to close on suitable seats ll, iwhereby the low Aot' water through said arms will be cut ott, as hereinafter explained. The arms 8, which 'are 4shown arranged 'in two series, one series at each end of the hub 5, may be of any desired number and of any desired capacit-y, and in the form illustrated six arms are shown, three radiating from 6o the periphery of the hub at one end thereof and three from the other end, the arms of one series being arranged to alternate with those of the other series. 'lhese arms are hollow, and those of each series on the descending side of the wheel are designed to be supplied with water, whereby they are weighted to cause a rotation ofthe wheel,while those on the ascending side of the wheel are empty. The pivots are arranged at the rear 7o edges of the inner ends of the arms, and those arms on the descending side ot' the powerwheel, as shown in Fig. 3,.wil1 hold the valves` l0 open, so that the water will rise in the uppermost arm, and as the outer ends l2 of the 75 `arms are open the said arms will continue weighted until they descend sufficiently to permit the water to drain from them, and they will be completely emptied by the time they The up- 8o ward movement of the arms, as shown at .the left of Fig. 3, causes the arms to swing backward or outward by gravity, and this movement operates to draw the valves firmly against the valve-seats, whereby the tlow of Water to the arms at the asoendingside 'of the wheel is positively cnt oi. By this construction and arrangement the descending side of the power-wheel is always heavier than the ascending side, and it will be clear that as oo long as the supply of water continues the powerwheel will be rotated. The hollow arms, which are open at their outer ends, may

be constructed in any suitable lnanner to form water-receiving chambers or buckets, and'these chambers or buckets may bemade of any desired size to provide a motor of the desired power.

, Changes in the form, proportion, size, and

the minor details of construction within the loo movement ofthe arms for controlling the flow i of water to the same, and means for supplying the Wheel with water, substantially as described.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination, of a power-Wheel having a hollowhub and provided with hollow arms pivotally mounted on the hub and open at their outer portions, valves connected With the arms for controlling the flow of Water to l the same and arranged to shut off the I'lovvr of Water to the arms at one side of the wheel, and means for supplying the Wheel with Water, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination, of a power-Wheel'having a hollow hub provided With interior valve-seats, hollow arms movably mounted von the hub, valves arranged Within the hub and connected With the arms and automatically operated by the same, whereby the valves at one side of th'e Wheel are closed, and means for supplying the Wheel with water, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the'presence of two Witnesses.

CYRUS A. ARNSBERGER.

Witnesses:

I-I. F. RILEY, J. H. JocHUM, Jr. 

